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2. Petrified Forest National Park - Wikipedia

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   Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood , the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands .

3. List of fee areas in the United States National Park System

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   Badlands National Park: South Dakota: $30 per-vehicle Big Bend National Park: Texas: $30 per-vehicle Fort Davis National Historic Site: Texas: $20 per-vehicle Guadalupe Mountains National Park: Texas: $10 per-person Padre Island National Seashore: Texas: $10 per-vehicle daily pass; 7-day vehicle pass available for $25 Arches National Park: Utah ...

4. List of national parks of the United States - Wikipedia

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   1938 poster promoting Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world Interactive map (incomplete) of the National Parks of the United States. The United States has 63 national parks , which are congressionally designated protected areas operated by the National Park Service , an agency of the Department of the Interior . [ 1 ]

5. Why Petrified Forest National Park deserves to be a ... - AOL

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   For many travelers, Petrified Forest may be a stop to somewhere else, like the Grand Canyon, but this national park is special in its own right. Why Petrified Forest National Park deserves to be a ...

6. Painted Desert (Arizona) - Wikipedia

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   Much of the Painted Desert within Petrified Forest National Park is protected as Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area, where motorized travel is limited. [4] The park offers both easy and longer hikes into the colored hills. The Painted Desert continues north into the Navajo Nation, where off-road travel is allowed only by permit.

7. Thirty-Fifth Parallel Route - Wikipedia

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   The route travels along a path about one mile south of the Painted Desert rim. [4] The extant traces of the route enters the Petrified Forest National Park at Navajo Springs, Arizona in the east, traveling in a generally southwest direction for about six miles before it exists the park on its southern boundary.

8. Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District - Wikipedia

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   The Painted Desert Community Complex is the administrative center of Petrified Forest National Park. The community center includes administrative facilities, utility structures and National Park Service employee housing, planned by architects Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander as part of the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program. Work ...

9. List of areas in the United States National Park System

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   Redesignated as Olympic National Park: Petrified Forest National Monument: December 8, 1906 December 9, 1962 Redesignated as Petrified Forest National Park: Lehman Caves National Monument: June 10, 1933 October 27, 1986 Abolished; incorporated into Great Basin National Park [10] Congaree Swamp National Monument October 18, 1976 November 10, 2003